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13 questions linked to/from Style Question: Use of "we" vs. "I" vs. passive voice in a dissertation
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Use of "I", "we" and the passive voice in a scientific thesis [duplicate]
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When the first person voice is used in scientific writing it is mostly used in ...
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Pronoun to use in a one-person report ("I", "we", something else) [duplicate]
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When I am writing a report I usually use we.
What if the project is done by ...
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“We”, “I”, “this author”? [duplicate]
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Use of “I”, “we” and the passive voice in a scientific thesis
For my thesis ...
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passive voice in papers? [duplicate]
I'm currently writing a paper for my research however I'm wondering if the usage of the passive voice is correct. for example I wrote like
mistakes were corrected
were normalized
were ...
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Is using passive voice "bad form"?
Whenever I create a document in Microsoft Word, it complains about a lot of my sentences being in passive voice. But, when I read that sentence aloud, it sounds fine to me. I am not sure if it is just ...
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Is it recommended to use "we" in research papers?
Is it recommended to use "we" in research papers? If not, should I always use passive voice?
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Who is "we" in my thesis?
in our field (mathematics) it is somewhat standard to write things like
" In Chapter 4 we show that ..." "The experiments we have conducted (meaning: me, together with my collaborators)
or:
" ...
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Rephrase "to the best of my knowledge"
In my master thesis I want to state that I did not find any related work except for one paper. In scientific papers the authors often use the phrase
"To the best of our knowledge, ...". However since ...
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Passive voice in academic writing; why is it not recommended? [duplicate]
When writing academic papers in English I use three different spelling and proofreading tools: Word, Grammarly, and Ginger. In the settings of all these tools, I specify that the document is an ...
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Is it normal in English to talk about oneself in the third person in these cases?
A Japanese person said that it is often normal to talk about oneself in the third person in English. This is what he wrote:
For example, when you write a CV or an introduction of yourself, the
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Using active voice without personal pronouns
When writing scientific research proposals I have been advised to try and stick to active voice because passive tends to sound indirect and to imply doubt. However, when writing in active voice, I ...
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Mix active and passive voice in the thesis
I am starting to write my thesis and was told not to use passive voice. But the active voice pronouns "I" and "we" do not sound right somehow and I even found this link How to Write... encouraging ...
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Does the professor think that I'm pregnant?
Yesterday, I handed my assignment to the professor as I was reaching the deadline. For some reason it took a while for her to check my paper, which made me uneasy, but eventually she looked at me in ...